Ed Bradley Quotes

That’s when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that’s something I learned at an early age.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

The only thing I’d ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you’re raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

There was no one around me who didn’t work hard.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that’s who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I’d get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.